Litigation

Over the past decade, Mr. Levine has successfully represented numerous private-sector clients in business and commercial litigation in both state and federal courts throughout Texas.

Within the last two years, Mr. Levine has, among other matters:

 

• Successfully attained a $500,000+ judgment against a property manager for fraud and conversion of assets

 

• Successfully attained multiple judgments on suits on promissory notes on behalf of various private clients

 

• Successfully represented various private clients in home and auto-related DTPA actions

 

• Successfully attained a six figure settlement for personal injury stemming from a pit bull attack

 

• Successfully litigated the removal of a lien on a homestead on behalf of a private homeowner

 

• Successfully attained injunctive relief and damages, including attorney’s fees, on behalf of a large national insurer against a former employee engaged in improper competition

 

• Successfully represented multiple private individual and business clients in residential and commercial lease disputes, on both landlord and tenant sides

 

• Successfully defended a well-known restaurant franchise in employment litigation brought by a former employee

 

• Successfully negotiated a key employee’s buy-out agreement so as to enable the client to move to a larger and more successful company in line with her goals

 

• Successfully removed a six-figure judgment against a private homebuilder, ultimately attaining a court order voiding a long-standing settlement agreement on grounds of material ambiguity, thereby re-starting the litigation

 

In addition, within the last several years, Mr. Levine has succeeded in the following legal battles:

 

• Defending a large public transportation company in state district court in multiple litigation and real estate matters, including attaining an unprecedented motion for summary judgment, establishing a new legal precedent for the client to leverage in future cases

 

• Defending a foreign-based real estate development corporation on a twenty-nine count federal court pleading by attaining a full dismissal of the case on a legal technicality

 

• Defending a child care franchise in federal court, ultimately resulting in the termination of the franchise agreement thereby enabling the franchisee to continue in the child care business independently

 

• Attaining a judgment for fraud and breach of contract against a book publishing company in favor of the true author, thereby enabling him to move ahead with his plans to publish and sell the book

 

• Forcing the return of nearly $50,000 in a matter of weeks in a lawsuit bought on behalf of home builder against a home owner, thereby salvaging the home builder’s business

 

• Resolving a partnership stalemate in a local high-tech company, enabling the client to take proprietary control of certain key software for his future use and profit

 

• Suing on behalf of a partner in a large apartment project resulting in a settlement that enabled the business of the partnership to continue and the client to recover damages as well as continue to profit from the project

 

• Defending a suit for injunctive relief in an oil-and-gas partnership dispute by filing a counter-suit and leveraging the facts in order to attain a liquidation of the partnership on favorable terms to the client

 

• Defending clients against the Texas Department of Licensing & Regulation by assisting in the diffusion of a high-profile press release into a low-profile settlement

 

• Suing on behalf of a large corporate client to enforce a covenant-not-to-compete agreement against a former employee, resulting in a judgment enforcing the non-compete agreement as well as the recovery of damages on behalf of the client